IAML 2022 Praha

Presented by the Forum of Sections

Chair: Martinus Severt (Royal Conservatoire The Hague)

Sonia Rzepka (University of Warsaw)
Notes from a personal calendar – a music inventory from Wschowa (Fraustadt) 1682

Ewa Hauptman-Fischer (University of Warsaw)
Pater Carolus Weldamon (d. 1736), Canon Regular from Fulnek Monastery - unknown composer and his music

Ulrike Wagner (Musikarchiv Stift Klosterneuburg)
The Rösner family and the music library and archive of Klosterneuburg Abbey during the 19th century


Abstracts:

Sonia Rzepka (University of Warsaw) Notes from a personal calendar - a music inventory from Wschowa (Fraustadt) 1682

The presentation will be a "sequel" of a paper on manuscripts and music prints from the library of the Kripplein Christi church in Wschowa (Fraustadt), which I delivered at the 2019 IAML Congress in Cracow. I will focus on a source that aroused particular interest in the audience - an inventory of musical manuscripts dated 1682, currently stored in the National Library in Warsaw. The inventory was written down in a Schreibkalender, which probably belonged to the rector of the municipal school operating at the Kripplein Christi church. It was usually the rector who took care of the library collection. The two-part index lists approximately 130 vocal religious works with German and Latin texts. Their authors came from or were active in Silesia, Poland and Pomerania, as well as Bohemia, Hungary and Saxony. Among them we can find Bartłomiej Pękiel, Sebastian Knüpfer, Samuel Capricornus, Johann Rosenmüller and Vincenzo Albrici. At present, listed manuscripts are lost. The inventory is therefore an important source of information on the repertoire and music ensemble associated with the Lutheran parish in Wschowa in the second half of the 17th century. It is also a testimony to the cultural contacts of Wschowa with various centres. Some of them the inventory confirms, and others it reveals.


Ewa Hauptman-Fischer (University of Warsaw) Pater Carolus Weldamon (d. 1736), Canon Regular from Fulnek Monastery - unknown composer and his music

It is not the first time the sources of the sacred music repertoire by Bohemian composers are discovered in a Silesian music collection. Researchers demonstrated the significance of musical sources kept at the University of Warsaw Library (originating from Silesian churches and monasteries) for Czech music history. “The way from Prague to Wrocław", paraphrasing the title of one of the articles by Václav Kapsa, is well-trodden. But there are still undiscovered paths from Bohemia to Silesia, unknown sources, and forgotten composers. The paper focuses on three manuscripts (probably autographs) of sacred vocal-instrumental music by unknown Bohemian composer Carolus Weldamon (d. 1736). He was a Canon Regular active in the Fulnek Monastery in Moravia. His compositions from the first decade of the XVIII century were obtained by Conventual Franciscans in Głogów (germ. Glogau) monastery in Silesia.


Ulrike Wagner (Musikarchiv Stift Klosterneuburg) The Rösner family and the music library and archive of Klosterneuburg Abbey during the 19th century

How did music libraries and archives look like in the mid-19th century? Which books and sheet music were, and thus what information was available to users? What influence could those sources of information have on the librarians? And how did those bases of knowledge influence the matters of collecting? The example given is the Augustinian Canons’ Abbey of Klosterneuburg, located on the shores of Danube River north of Vienna. The protagonists are the Klosterneuburg Canons Anton and Ambros Rösner, a pair of brothers from an art-loving, bourgeois-Biedermeier family from Vienna. Anton was professor of theology and at the same time Regens chori and choirboy prefect at Klosterneuburg Abbey. His older brother Ambros also held the positions of Regens chori and prefect of the choirboys, before working as a priest in various Klosterneuburg parishes. Many meta-sources from the Klosterneuburg archive and library survived from the Rösners’ time: catalogues, purchase lists, books holding information about borrowing and reserving items by the monks etc. Music inventories, performance lists, as well as sheet music from the 19th century are also preserved in vast amounts. An analysis of these combined sources provides deep information on how Anton and Ambros Rösner operated as Regens chori in the Abbey. Personal documents of the brothers, such as diaries and correspondence, are kept in the archives of the Abbey. They provide further information on the musical life of the 19th century, e.g. the contacts to important personalities of Viennese musical life, such as Franz Xaver Glöggl (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde), Joseph Hellmesberger (Viennese violinist) or the Schubert family. Wie haben Musikbibliotheken und -archive in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ausgesehen? Welche Bücher, welche Musikalien und in weiterer Folge welches Wissen standen den Benutzer*innen zur Verfügung? Wie beeinflusste dieses Wissen ihre Handlungen – und umgekehrt, wie entwickelte und/oder veränderten sich die Sammlungen durch das Wirken der dort tätigen Personen? Anhand eines Beispiels aus der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts wird versucht, diese Fragen exemplarisch zu beantworten. Als Schauplatz dient das Augustiner-Chorherrenstift Klosterneuburg, im Norden Wiens gelegen. Anton Rösner jun. (1813–1878), ein aus einer bürgerlich-biedermeierlichen Wiener Familie stammender Chorherr, Professor für Theologie und zugleich Regens chori und Sängerknabenpräfekt, fungiert als Protagonist. Die Bibliothek des Stiftes ist zur Zeit Rösners sehr gut greifbar. Es stehen umfangreiche Entlehn- und Vormerkbücher, Kataloge und Ankaufslisten zur Verfügung. Auch die musikalischen Quellen (beispielsweise Musikinventare, Aufführungsverzeichnisse und Musikalien) des 19. Jahrhunderts sind noch größtenteils erhalten. Eine Kombination dieser Quellen erlaubt einen differenzierten Blick auf das Setting, innerhalb dessen Anton Rösner wirkte. Seine persönlichen Dokumente, wie Tagebücher und Korrespondenzen, die im Archiv des Stiftes aufbewahrt werden, vervollständigen das Bild und geben Einblick in Kontakte zu bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten des Wiener Musiklebens wie beispielsweise Franz Xaver Glöggl (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde), Joseph Hellmesberger oder der Familie Schubert. Damit bietet sich die einzigartige Möglichkeit, Rösners Handlungen und sein Wirken im Stift Klosterneuburg und speziell in den stiftlichen Sammlungen, nachzuvollziehen.